Talk:DistOS-2011W Plan 9: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 01:10, 23 February 2011

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/installation_instructions/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs

log

I'm going to log what I do here. Normally I'd do that in a text file and consult it after for my actual writing of a report, but this stuff is already on a wiki, so might as well get the whole process up here.

Set up an old PC.

- Celeron(R) CPU 240 GHz (Prescott ~~2004)
- 224 MB DDR(1) RAM
- 37.2 GB HDD
- some kind of integrated graphics card I don't even know

Test PC

- It booted up to windows XP
- Everything appears to work as it should.
- Display, mouse, keyboard, CD drive, Ethernet port, etc.

reboot

- insert plan9 CD
- shutdown
- Computer makes horrible highpitched whine (probably 8 year old CRT)
- reboot

Failure

- installation hangs within seconds
- reboot again

Success?

- Plan9 startup

- - select install from this CD (confirm USB keyboard works and don't need to find PS/2 Keyboard)
- Stuff flies by faster then I can see

- "USE DMA FOR IDE DRIVES [yes] ???
  - Google DMA
  - "Direct memory access"
  - Say Yes

- mouseport is (options): Say PS2

- vgsize[640x480x8]: 640x480x8

- installer can't do graphical install
  - installation guide says to do in text mode, so doing that...

- installer asks to config File system
- OPTIONS:
  - "Fossil - the new plan9 fileserver"
- or
  - "Fossil+venti - Fossil + archival dump server

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 *Set up an old PC.
 **Celeron(R) CPU 240 GHz (Prescott ~~2004)
 **224 MB DDR(1) RAM
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 *Test PC
 **It booted up to windows XP
 **Everything appears to work as it should.
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 *reboot
 **insert plan9 CD
 **shutdown
 **Computer makes horrible highpitched whine (probably 8 year old CRT)
 **reboot
+*Failure
+**installation hangs within seconds
+**reboot again
+*Success?
+**Plan9 startup
+***select install from this CD (confirm USB keyboard works and don't need to find PS/2 Keyboard)
+**Stuff flies by faster then I can see
+**"USE DMA FOR IDE DRIVES [yes] ???
+***Google DMA
+***"Direct memory access"
+***Say Yes
+**mouseport is (options): Say PS2
+**vgsize[640x480x8]: 640x480x8
+**installer can't do graphical install
+***installation guide says to do in text mode, so doing that...
+**installer asks to config File system
+**OPTIONS:
+***"Fossil - the new plan9 fileserver"
+**or
+***"Fossil+venti - Fossil + archival dump server